Arts / Design / Textile & Costume

Dreaming of Dior: Every Dress Tells a Story

by Charlotte Smith & Grant Cowan

Charlotte Smith had already had more than her fair share of fabulous dresses and adventures. She lived life to the fullest in London, Paris and New York before falling in love with Australia and making it her...

Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States

by Gayle V. Fischer

By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved...

Visual Merchandising: Mirror and soul of a point of sale

by Gianfranco Giacoma-caire

Visual Merchandising is a technical manual that has more than 400 photos and 100 drawings. It speaks about the aesthetic aspects to set a window shop and the internal visual in a store. Analyse the psychological...

Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture

by David Kunzie

From corsets to codpieces, stockings to stilettos and piercing to push-up bras, fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This new edition of David Kunzie's rich and revealing history of...

Scottish National Dress and Tartan

by Stuart Reid

Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion and Scottish National Dress is recognised around the world. This book reveals the origin and development of tartans and Scottish national costume. Beginning...

A History of English Costume

by , Iris Brooke

Miss Brooke is a well known as an authority on historical costume. In this single volume she covers a history of dress in England from earliest times. The book contains an ample text, four coloured plates, and...

Party Masks

by Judy Balchin

Starting with materials as simple as paper plates or readily available mask blanks, this project book provides an engaging variety of designs for mask making. Ideal for masquerades, children's parties, or...

A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road

by Christopher Alexander

Chris Alexander originally travelled to Khiva, a remote walled city in Uzbekistan on the route of the ancient Silk Road, to write a guidebook. But he stayed, mesmerized by a world of silk and forgotten 15th-century...

Material Change Kindle Edition

by Eve Blossom & Yves Behar

Material Change shows that there is something going on in design-something powerful. Design can change the world. This new way of thinking is revolutionizing the business of design and the design of business....

Dreaming of Chanel: Vintage Dresses, Timeless Stories

by Charlotte Smith & Grant Cowan

Inheriting a priceless vintage clothing collection sounds like every woman’s dream come true.

But when Charlotte Smith discovered that her American godmother, Doris Darnell, had made her custodian of more...